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Recently Wordfence (in my opinion the best WordPress security and firewall plugin) released an article about securing your home router. The article can be found here. Apparently, a fairly large percentage (6.7%) of attacks on WordPress sites are caused by hacked home routers! According to the linked article, in the last month alone Wordfence detected […]

By the way, that’s “foh” (meaning fake), not “fox” (like the animal). Just wanted to clear that up. The “Faux Interview” post is a great way to use PLR articles, or to even piece together small chunks of content that tend to be too short to become a stand-alone article. The layout of the post […]

This post is an example of a FAQ or Q&A post. It is pretty self explanatory (and very meta ? ). What is a FAQ or Q&A post? It is similar to a “Top 10” post or a “How To” post. The basic idea is to lead the reader from point A to point Z […]

by Guest Blogger Choosing to create a blog is a rich and rewarding experience that allows you to perform a variety of activities on the Internet. In fact, there are effective tools for easily creating a blogging site that avoids the daunting task of going it alone. The process of creating a blog is incredibly […]

A well-crafted website requires more than just being aesthetically pleasing. Using both proper layout and creative design, you can offer your readers easier navigation to locate the information they are seeking. This will produce a positive impression from your readers concerning your organization while enhancing the user’s overall experience. It is important to take the […]

I was working on a website for a friend, and in order to “comply” with best design standards, installed the Contact Form 7 plugin so I could add a highly visible contact form prompt to the sidebar. CF7 performs its duties via a shortcode. So, I added a text widget to the sidebar and copy/pasted […]

Seems like every day I read a comment about “the WordPress CMS” (Content Management System), or how great WordPress is as a CMS, or something similar. I admit, I have to cringe. Not because I don’t like WordPress — because I do like it very much… but whether or not I “like” WordPress being described […]

Occasionally, when a post is added to a WordPress blog, it is scheduled for a future date and time. Or someone may use one of the dozens of plugins that adds multiple posts at one and schedules them for you. Usually, this scheduling works. Sometimes it fails. And, when it does fail it can be […]

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